The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-09
D. United Mail

after printing but to wash the print in water
1t is used very largely for proofs. but there are
not many. even among amateurs, who arc will
ing to use il for permanent work II does not
admit of delicate shading. the solar prints do.
and it cannot DO given q finished appearance. It
Is used chiefly by architects for duplicating
why don't artists take photographs of
scenery they wish to paint instead of sketchingP'
MANY Of then. do and the practice is one that
will grow rapidly in favor. All artists see views
that they would like to sketch, but haven't time
to do it. With camera the sketching OF a
week or a month can be done in an afternoon.
This will not be limited to scenery. The i'm
proven ents that have been made and being
made in the camera place characters or moving
objects at their disposal also. With an instan-
taneous shutter almost any amateur can take
a rapidly moving buggy so that the spokes will
show as il it were standing still. Some of the
shutters work 50 fast that you cannot distin-
q great deal Of work in contriving instantaneous
shutters. the difficulty being that tho motion,
unless exactly adjusted; will jar the instrument
which practically perfect in operation"
Mr. Tom II. Hibben is said to have the only
detective camera in use in the city The in
struEent 10 an upobtrusive little affair, easily
carried under the arm, and looking more like
case of medical instruments than a photograph
gallery, which it 10 practically. With it Mr..
Hibben has been able to take a large number of
views on the streets, many Of them being pic
lures of persons who had no idea that they were
being taken"
do you9" queried reporter.
Every much. In fact should not take any
great interest in photography but for this meth
cd. The other does well enough for scenery. but
] have no bltion to wander about the Streets
with an old time outfit, pose with my hea
under black cloth for the benefit Of an admir-
ing throng of newsboys and other gentlemen of
leisure. With my detective under my arm Imovo
along without attracting attention. When / see
something l want I level at it. This little
ground glass finder on top gives me the view
- oh mn n vii ha tax I oil on
at it, and if the focus is not right adjust IL by
moving this lever. Then / touch this button.
the shutter opens and closes. and 1 have my
picture"
But how about changing platesf
I'VE do not use plates in this work. The
posture is on paper nseative--a continuous roll
of prepared paper which gives twenty-four ex-
posures. When one roll is filled you put it in
your pocket and take fresh one This mega
tive paper is a comparatively late improve
ment 1t has an adhesive preparation. soluble
in warm water, between the gelatine and the
paper proper. When the negative is pressed
firmly on glass plate and immersed for some
minutes in a bath Of warm water the paper is
removed and the gelatine film is left on the
glass. This can be handled as an ordinary glass
negative. or by further process the film be
removed from the glass and preserved separ-
ately"
s.How would you summarize the advantages
of this methods"
the views not subject to halation, the de-
velopment takes less chemicals. The greatest
advantage, however, is In the views you get.
The artistic gems Of photography are the snap
shots-the subjects caught on the wing. Tho
tendency with amateurs everywhere but here is
to instantaneous work. During the past sum-
mer, in the East, particularly the sea-shore,
the detective camera has been the rage 1t has
also been largely used in Chicago, Cincinnati
and other Western cities. The reason is that
you get views that can be obtained in other
way. The street gamin, the banana man. the
patent medicine peddler. and the hundred other
characters that give variety to the crowd,
the prey of the detective. They are what the
artist wants. and he get them neither by
other methods of photography nor by sketch
ing
photography then comes into the higher
artF
IF it comes at all, it comes in that way.
The objection to the photograph from
tstic view is that il has aerial perspective.
You get everything a fat OF course there :
is art in photography. and there 10 photography
without art / think you would be perfectly
safe in saying that view of group of rela-
tives with a red shawl for color, and split
bottomed chair and the family Bible for
could not be called high art The
real merit of the photographers work is in the
composition OF his view. Two men may take
the same material. and one make artistic pic
ture OF it, while the other produces a night
mare"
Among other citizens who devote odd hours
10 photography are William Buddenbaum, Frank
ogWlck, Charles Compton. Walter Nordyke